vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-15592: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 18, 2017
Added
Sep 28, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges because self-linear shadow mappings are mishandled for translated guests.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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